Key Concession for Health Insurers on Table?

President Barack Obama‘s Friday meeting with insurance industry executives will be closely watched for signs that the administration is preparing to tell carriers that they will get a key concession on the health-care law strongly desired by big insurers.

Insurers and the administration have been discussing in recent days the prospect of insurers getting the go-ahead and necessary data to directly enroll people who would qualify for premium subsidies, bypassing the troubled health insurance exchange websites.